280351 VU Climate Dynamics and Diagnostics (2023W)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 28 - Erdwissenschaften, Meteorologie - Geophysik und

Continuous assessment of course work

Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Mo 04.09.2023 00:00 to Tu 26.09.2023 23:59
Registration is open from Th 28.09.2023 00:00 to We 04.10.2023 23:59
Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2023 23:59

Details

max. 20 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Lectures: Monday
Exercises: Thursday

Lectures will be hold as 2-hour blocks with a short break in between.

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IMPORTANT: First lecture: 9.10.2023
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Exercises will only start in November.

    
    Monday
    02.10.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    05.10.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    09.10.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    12.10.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    16.10.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    19.10.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    23.10.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    30.10.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    06.11.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    09.11.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    13.11.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    16.11.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    20.11.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    23.11.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    27.11.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    30.11.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    04.12.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    07.12.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    11.12.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    14.12.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    08.01.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    11.01.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    15.01.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    18.01.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    22.01.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Thursday
    25.01.
    08:30 - 10:30
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II
    
    Monday
    29.01.
    10:00 - 12:00
    Praktikumsraum Meteorologie 2F513 5.OG UZA II

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course consists of weekly lectures and exercies.

The lectures are structured into two parts. The first part will be given by Aiko Voigt and will treat the following topics: spatial patterns of surface warming; relative humidity and precipitation in today's climate and their response to warming; energetic framework of the ITCZ; carbon budgets and their relevance for the Paris agreement and extreme events; bistability and hysteresis of the Earth system.

The second part will be given by Leo Haimberger and will treat topics related to climate diagnostics. It will cover the analysis of stochastic processes, requirements for climate observations, properties of climate reaalysis products, EOF analysis, mass and enthalpy budgets and climate change attribution (optimal fingerprints).

The exercises will be based on the respective lecture units. They will consist of both pure computational tasks and programming tasks on the TeachingHub. The exercise assignments are designed to help students understand and apply the contents of the lecture.

Assessment and permitted materials

For each of the two lecture parts, a separate oral examination will be done.

The exercise part will be graded according to the exercise sheets. The course is structured as "Kreuzerlübungen". The students work on the exercises at home and indicate the number of completed tasks on the Moodle page. In addition, students must be able to present the solutions to the tasks in front of the class.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The final grade will be calculated as follows:

40% exercise grading
30% oral examination of first lecture part by Aiko Voigt
30% oral examination of second lecture part by Leo Haimberger

Each of the three components need to be completed.

To pass the exercise part, at least 50% of the tasks must be ticked and at least two blackboard performances must be completed positively.

Examination topics

For the two oral examinations: entire content of the respective lecture part

Reading list

Provided as part of the lectures

Association in the course directory

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